Lattice cover for barrels



(No Model.)

0. A. PRATT.

LATTICE COVER FOR BARRELS. No. 393,174. Patented Nov. 20, 1888.

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Nrren STATES CHARLES A. PRATT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

LATTICE COVER FOR BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,174, dated November 20, 1888.

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T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. PRATT, of the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in'Lattice Govers for Barrels, Boxes, &c., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to covers, made of lattice or net work, for barrels, boxes, and other receptacles containing articles of produce such as potatoes, apples, and other vegetables or fruits, nuts, &c.--aud which, while exposing the articles to view and inspection, protects them against being pilfered or otherwise improperly interfered with or handled.

The invention particularly pertains to means for fastening these covers to the open heads or ends of barrels, 8m; and these means in substance consist of slide bars or rods adapted to slide on the lattice cover and at their outer ends to engage the barrel, &c., and at their inner ends each having a loop to engage a slidebar, and means applied to the bars at their inner ends to fasten them severally to each other and against movement and to release them for movement, all substantially as hereinafter described.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the lattice cover for barrels, &c., of this invention is illustrated.

Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is an edge View applied to the top of a barrel, shown in side elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section, line 3 3, Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A represents a lattice cover made of wire strands or rods interwoven and severally looped about and connected to an annular rod, B, which makes the outer edge or rim of the cover, all as well known.

0 (J O (3* are bars or rods, which, as shown, severally constitute portions of the latticework of the cover A. These rods are radially arranged quartering, and the inner end of each, which are severally in a common central open square, D, of the lattice cover A, has an angular bend, E, terminating in an eye or loop, F, that in each case loosely engages another bar or rod of the series and the one thereof which extends substantially in the same diametrical line or direction with it. Each bar 0 O (3 0* is free to be moved lengthwise on the lattice-work by its loop or eye F on and through the loop or eye F of the other bar, which is in the diametrical line with it. The several bars at their outer ends have a more or less right-angular bend or leg-extension, G, in a direction across the outer rim or edge, B, of the lattice-work, to bear against or engage the outer side of a barrel or the like (shown in part at H) when the cover is properly placed thereon, Fig. 2.

Each leg G is preferably serrated, roughened, or toothed, as at a, to secure its better hold on and engagement with the barrel.

J is a headed screw-bolt receiving a thumb screw nut, K, and washers L M. This headed bolt passes loosely through the open rectangular space N, made by the sliding bars and their bent ends, as described, and has one of its washers, L, with its head 0, on one side and the other of its washers, M, with its nut K, on the other side of the bars, all so that turning the screw-nut in one direction the sliding bars will be severally bound together between the head and the screw-nut of the screw-bolt, and thus made secure in their adjusted positions and against accidental or surreptitious movement, and turning it in the other direction said bars will be released for lengthwise movement on each other and on the lattice-work, as may be desired.

The arrangement of sliding bars and means for fastening them against and releasing them to movement on the lattice cover, as described, renders the cover capable of attachment to barrels or such like of varying sizes, within, of course, given dimensions, and, as is plain, the whole is most simple and efficient.

The contact-face of the washer L with the bars 0 O C O and of the nut O with said 90 washer L may be serrated, so that they will be severally more or less interlocked, and thus serve to hold the bolt against turning as the screw-nut is turned thereon to fasten the bars.

Having thus described my invention,what I 5 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The combination, with a lattice cover, A, for barrels, &c., of slide bars or rods adapted to slide thereon and at their outer ends to engage the barrel, &c., and at their inner ends each having a loop, F, to engage a slide-bar,

J, and screw-nut K, applied to said bars at their inner ends and arranged to bind them to and release them from each other, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witand means applied to said bars at their inner ends to fasten them severally to each other and against movement and to release them for movement, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with a lattice cover, A,

for barrels, &c., of slide bars or rods adapted nesses.

to slide thereon and at their outer ends to en- 7 CHARLES A. PRATT. gage the barrel, &c., and at their inner ends Witnesses:

each having a loop, F, to engage a slide-bar, ALBERT W. BROWN,

and means consisting of a headed screw-bolt, W. O. SHAW. 

